I’m disabled and no way to get anything from what I have now, which is a omen laptop from 2016 and no matter what ditro, and whatever fixes I try, I can’t get Linux to work with my games through steam without a lot of problems.

When do you think Nvidia will actually be usable for gaming on a laptop?

Distro I used was Ubuntu, nobara, pop os, EndeavourOS, umm like others I can’t currently remember.

Always seems to be some minor thing that just breaks things or little nuanced glitches in the desktop environment, like kde plasma just not showing specific things.

If I could get a better laptop or computer that wouldn’t have these problems I would.

I’m forced to be on windows 10.

My computer is a omen laptop

https://support.hp.com/ee-en/document/c06425980

With a Nvidia 1660gt iirc

EDIT: forgot to mention my Logitech mouse that didn’t seem to work besides basic mouse functionality, I need certain macros and things on it which doesn’t save on the mouse it self (mouse was a gift from my mom)

  • The Uncanny Observer
    4•4 months ago

    The problem probably has to do with Wayland and NVIDIA not being very good together, thanks to NVIDIA. You’ll get a lot of glitches in your environment if you use them together. You can try logging in using X11 instead of Wayland, that’s what I do and it works great. I heard somebody say there’s an update coming from NVIDIA that’s supposed to fix things with Wayland, but whether it actually does is anyone’s guess.

    In the future, I would go with AMD for gaming. NVIDIA has been becoming shittier the last several years, for both Windows and Linux. This laptop I have now is the last PC I’ll buy with an NVIDIA GPU.

    EDIT: You should also consider disabling hybrid mode in the BIOS, even if you go back to Windows. The extra battery life probably isn’t worth the decreased performance you get while gaming.

    • @thezeesystemOPEnglish
      1•4 months ago

      Did try x11 and had various problems with that too as well as severe performance drops in games, even ones with native Linux support.

      Also did check the hybrid option in bios and various places and there isn’t any options for it anywhere.

      • The Uncanny Observer
        1•4 months ago

        Oh that sucks for the hybrid option. Most hybrids allow you to turn that off, and you get a fair FPS boost for it in most games. I’m surprised the Omen doesn’t allow it.

        • MaxEnglish
          1•4 months ago

          For my hybrid laptop, I have to control it with prime-select instead of in bios. I wonder if the games were actually running on the nvidia GPU. If they weren’t, you could have lots of performance problems. Did nvidia-smi say that the games were running on them?